Ah, Yes. That’s What I Was Looking For.

I like this an awful lot. All of a sudden I feel like A Real Novelist. It’s simple, understated, stark, and you can see my name on the cover from eighteen fucking miles away.

The black background will be gloss, the white letters will be matte, and the snake will be silver foil. People will rub themselves against the cover, grope and stroke it. Which, thinking about it, will ruin the sales. Ah well.

(Note also that if you go to the Amazon.com page for CLV, you can currently pre-order it and William Gibson’s SPOOK COUNTRY together for a bigger discount.)

That’s a really nice cover. Any chance you can stick an Amazon.co.uk link up so I can go through that? I want to buy the book, but I want you to get the kickback to after I heard a lot of authors get more money from Amazon affiliation than from the actual royalties.

MAn. Just the title of this gives me the creeps. Although not as much as that cyborg pigeon thing.

February 28, 2007

Warren Ellis

UK rights haven’t been sold. So no.

February 28, 2007

Michael

I’m just so relieved it has a nice cover. Did you have any input on that, by the way?

February 28, 2007

stuart updegrave

warren, that cover is really nice. i’m psyched to read this book, and spook country as well.

but, i’m pretty sure that the “buy these books together” almost never gives an added discount (it doesn’t in this case, at least the price quoted to me). it’s just a snazzy way for Amazon to drive more sales.

You’re not a Real Novelist until you go to a signing at a Borders in Quaker Forge, Iowa and the one person who shows up tries to read to you from her romance novel in progress.

February 28, 2007

Idan Cohen

“Mr. Ellis! Mr. Ellis! ‘Her breasts heaved like tectonic plates under the California rifts. She knew he needed her, needed her more than the zebras in the congo need grazing space denied to them by the goverment, and she was willing, oh so willing, to take him in all into her, not in a sexual way, that is icky, what sort of book do you think this is?'”

Very nice cover design.
I wonder how Amazon decide whom to offer discount rates and who gets shafted. They’re not offering it to me for an additional discount (a wise choice on Amazon’s behalf, as I’ve already preordered both).

February 28, 2007

Alan

I’ve NEVER seen a “buy both these books” thing on Amazon that’s cheaper than buying both books separately, yet everyone believes it is. It’s a nice wee trick by Amazon that obvously works or they’d have got rid of it long ago.

The cover’s looking nice nonetheless.

February 28, 2007

pat

It works well for tpb. Amazon sells them a little cheaper than stores do, but then s&h bumps it back up. You do the package dealy and its a relatively easy way of saving the money they originally claim you save on the single trade.

Cover to Warren Ellis’ upcoming novel: Crooked Little Vein. I am itchy all over to read this book. Though, it could also be that weird stinky rash I got from the 90 year old Nazi Sex Midget down the street.
……

Ok, it’s time for me to be an arse–so here we go: as an independent bookseller (yes, there are still indies out there, AND we’re web-savvy), I must urge Ellis-ites to seek pre-orders from their locals, or at least some indies online. Sure, the chains and Amazon might offer a discount, but guess who’s going to have actually READ the book and can handsell it…Amazon customer reviews? Utter trash most of the time… try http://www.booksense.com in the US for a listing of stores.
I for one am going to use one of the only perks of this low-wage business and ask a pub rep for an advanced copy…

And, yeah, that cover’s a ‘dodged a bullet’ moment for an author; they’re defintely doing right by Mr. Elllis…